** The Las Vegas Sun has a quick list of bills that made it past the “Tuesday Deadline” for consideration in the Nevada Legislature. Looking for bills that failed to meet the deadline? It’s here. For information on other bills start with this link.

** Heads up: The Reno Gazette Journal will run an article on Sunday concerning the closing of the ATF office in Reno, NV, and how this has impacted the efforts to stop gun trafficking. The Leahy-Collins amendment to curtail gun trafficking in the U.S. failed in the Senate on a 58-42 vote during which Republicans sustained their filibuster of the amendment. [TheHill] Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) voted to sustain the GOP filibuster. [Vote 99]

** Did we know? “Sixty-six Americans were killed in mass shootings by non-Muslims in 2012 alone, twice as many fatalities as from Muslim-American terrorism in all 11 years since 9/11.” [Politicususa] And, did we know that the NRA and Conservatives in Congress have made it more difficult to track or monitor non-Muslim extremists in this country since 2001? Crooks and Liars posts a list of recent “eliminationist” attacks.

“During the first two years of the nation’s economic recovery, the mean net worth of households in the upper 7% of the wealth distribution rose by an estimated 28%, while the mean net worth of households in the lower 93% dropped by 4%, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly released Census Bureau data.” [PewResearch]

Graph it out and it looks like this:

** Watch H.R. 1549 carefully. It would “Give sick people without insurance temporary access to crappy private plans at exorbitant rates as part of a strategy aimed at pulling the rug out from under them entirely at the end of the year, all the while mewling about one’s concern for sick people.” [WashMon] When astro-turf organizations like Freedom Works and AMAC line up for something it’s time to head the other direction. The best description for this legislation is “ruse and trap.”

** Republicans Behaving Badly. Let’s start with the Tennessee legislator who thinks pressure cooker bombs are humorous. Followed, of course, by his non-apology-apology. His rationale is that advocates of sensible gun safety legislation should have stayed quiet after Newtown… Then there’s the Conservative group that photo-shopped ethnic minority people from its mailer about voting restrictions. And who could have missed GOP behemoth, Rush Limbaugh, comparing the Boston bombers to Trayvon Martin? That Arkansas legislator who called for using “2nd Amendment” solutions to Medicaid expansion, “Most likely won’t kill lawmakers who support Medicaid expansion.” Most likely? How nice.

** Lady’s Days: Ann Coulter, scourge of all operative grey cells residing in every cerebral cortex, calls for women to to prosecuted for wearing the hijab. So, do we tell nuns to refrain from wearing their habits? A Washington state pastor tells women to submit to their husbands and not nag “like Chinese water torture.” The adherents of the Church of Perpetual Intolerance (aka the Family Research Council) are trying to convince us that “many” experts believe Plan B contraceptives should not be available over the counter — there are a few critics, and those critiques tend to be based on religiosity not science. Rebuffed last year, Ohio Republicans are taking another swipe at funding for Planned Parenthood women’s health care services in that state.